FPGA Design Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Design\Prototyping
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring FPGA Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 59 92
Rank change year-on-year -51 +33 -
Permanent jobs citing FPGA Design 2 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 0.083% 0.18% 0.091%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.22% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year - +45.63% -
75th Percentile - - £55,750
90th Percentile - - -
South West median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +50.00% -41.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

FPGA Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,845 455 907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 76.30% 83.18% 82.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,237 293 534
10th Percentile £32,100 £27,500 £30,905
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.95% -2.78% -6.09%
75th Percentile £82,500 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £80,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -

FPGA Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing FPGA Design relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

FPGA Design job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

FPGA Design
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing FPGA Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing FPGA Design

FPGA Design
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FPGA Design within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 19 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Filton - 2 £75,000 -
FPGA Design
South West

FPGA Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Simulink
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Designer
1 2 (100.00%) FPGA Designer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
1 2 (100.00%) FPGA
1 2 (100.00%) Verilog
1 2 (100.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Signal Processing
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) UVM
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Intel
1 2 (100.00%) Microsemi
1 2 (100.00%) Xilinx